tenacious
holding firmly to a course, belief, or grip
Word origin: From Latin tenere, to hold.
Tenacious in a sentence
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Her tenacious pursuit of the truth eventually unraveled the entire conspiracy.
The plaintiff's tenacious pursuit of the case kept it alive through three appeals and a decade of delays.
Using “tenacious” well
Tenacious describes holding firmly to a course, belief, or grip, with a generally admiring connotation of persistence. It opposes anything yielding or irresolute.
More GRE words starting with T
understood or implied without being openly stated
habitually reserved and uncommunicative in speech
only loosely relevant; diverging from the main point
perceptible by touch or concrete enough to be grasped
to twist together into a confused or knotted mass
equivalent in effect or value to something else
to dull or damage the luster, reputation, or purity of something
needlessly repeating an idea using different words
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